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Long Island Attorney Appointed to Trial Lawyer Academy’s Board of Directors

East Meadow, NY (Vocus) July 7, 2010

The New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers has recently made a new addition to its Board of Directors. The organization has appointed Neal Goldstein, an experienced and well respected personal injury attorney, to serve among the organization’s leaders.

Mr. Goldstein, a partner at the Goldstein and Bashner firm, has represented accident victims across the New York and Long Island areas for over 20 years. As Mr. Goldstein joins the New York Academy of Trial Lawyers, he will become a member of an organization that is deeply devoted to protecting and strengthening our civil justice system. In order to do so, the organization relies on a diverse membership, with members ranging from attorneys and paralegals, to tenured law professors. Mr. Goldstein helps to bring the organization an important presence. Michelle Stern, the Executive Director of the organization, states “The Academy is thrilled to welcome Neal Goldstein to its Board of Directors. Mr. Goldstein has been an actively involved member and will bring his expertise and insight to this new leadership role. I look forward to working with him.”

Mr. Goldstein’s East Meadow based firm’s practice areas include car accidents, hazardous work conditions, and premise liability. In response to being invited to join the Board of Directors, Mr. Goldstein stated, “it was an honor,” and added, “I normally don’t get involved in legal organizations passed the member level, however, I felt that that this was a unique opportunity to have an integral role in an organization that truly is helping to rebuild the image of our profession.” Mr. Goldstein further praised the academy’s public outreach, adding that “at a time when insurance companies continue in their attempt to erode the rights of individuals, it is important for the public to know fact from fiction. The academy effectively helps people to do so.” Mr. Goldstein looks forward to helping to strengthen the organization and has already begun to recruit fellow legal professionals to join.

Lyons joined the internationally known practice of Hendlerlaw, P.C. in 2008 focusing his talents on toxic and catastrophic injury. With a renowned record of trial experience spanning 17 years, Mr. Lyons has handled a wide range of plaintiffs’ cases including birth injury and medical malpractice, pharmaceutical litigation, civil rights, product liability, premises liability, government liability, and mesothelioma asbestos disease.

As a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Mr. Lyons has substantial, relevant experience in the field of personal injury law and has demonstrated special competence in that area of law. There are more than 70,000 attorneys licensed to practice in Texas. Only 7,000 are Board Certified.

Lyons chose to join HendlerLaw because he shares Principal and Founder Scott Hendler’s sense of purpose to speak with a strong voice for those who suffer injustice at the hands of the powerful. A graduate of The University of Texas School of Law and a former Judicial Law Clerk for U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Mr. Lyons assumes a leadership role as a Partner in the firm’s Mesothelioma Practice as well as its decade long fight for banana plantation workers exposed to dangerous levels of DBCP, a toxic pesticide.

An induction ceremony will take place Friday, February 4th at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the National Bar Association for Immigration Attorneys. AILA has approximately 11,000 members. The Board of Governors is the governing body of the organization. Jeff D. Joseph, Esq. was elected for a three year term to begin in June of 2009. He is one of 21 elected directors.

The Board of Governors responsibilities and duties include:

Determine the policies of the Association and carry on all the business thereof
Serves as the appellate body to hear charges brought against chapter members
Supervise the election of officers and directors; fill officer, director vacancies
Approve Annual Plan and Budget
Represent the members of AILA
Understand the issues facing AILA
Provide financial oversight
Construe the Bylaws and Association policies
Satisfy member needs
Set annual goals and monitor accomplishments
Provide leadership by example and explanation

Jeff Joseph is a graduate of the University of Denver, College of Law. He is a past Chapter Chair of the Colorado Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Mr. Joseph currently serves as Vice Chair of the AILA National 2010 Annual Conference Planning Committee, and the AILA Membership Committee as well as the local Colorado USCIS liaison committee. He formerly served on the AILA National Liaison Committee with the headquarters of the Executive Office for Immigration Review for two years, two terms as chair of the AILA Amicus Committee, and for three years as a member of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Liaison Committee.

In 2004, he received the Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award from AILA. In 2005, he was named a finalist in the Denver Bar Association/Denver Business Journal Best of the Bar Awards. In 2008, Mr. Joseph was nominated by the Denver Business Journal as one of Denver’s “Forty under 40” which recognizes forty young entrepreneurs for their business skills, leadership and community service. In 2006 through 2009, Mr. Joseph was named a Colorado Superlawyer by Colorado Superlawyer Magazine (reserved for the top five percent of all licensed attorneys in the State of Colorado). 5280 Magazine also named Mr. Joseph a “Top Lawyer” in the area of immigration law for 2006 through 2009. In 2008, Mr. Joseph was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to the Colorado Nonimmigrant Agricultural Seasonal Worker Pilot Program Advisory Council.

Noted California Attorney Frederick S. Schwartz Elected to Board of The TLPJ Foundation

Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) July 27, 2006

Nationally prominent attorney Frederick S. Schwartz of the Law Office of Frederick S. Schwartz in Los Angeles, was elected to the Board of Directors of The TLPJ Foundation on July 16, 2006, at the organization’s annual membership meeting in Seattle. The TLPJ Foundation is the nonprofit parent of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ), a national public interest law firm dedicated to using trial lawyers’ skills and resources to advance the public good.

“Fred Schwartz embodies and furthers our mission — using his skills and resources to advance the public good,” said outgoing TLPJ Foundation President Thomas M. Dempsey of the Law Offices of Thomas M. Dempsey in Los Angeles. “We are thrilled to welcome him to our Board.”

Eight other attorneys were also elected as new TLPJ Foundation Board members:

Richard A. Fisher of the Richard Fisher Law Office in Cleveland, Tennessee;

Richard Golomb of Golomb & Honik, P.C., in Philadelphia;

Ellen A. Presby of Baron & Budd, P.C., in Dallas;

Lee J. Rohn of the Law Offices of Rohn and Cameron, LLC, in Christiansted, St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands; and

C. Andrew Waters of Waters & Kraus in Dallas.

Other board members from California include incoming President Alan R. Brayton of Brayton v Purcell in Novato and incoming Vice-President Gerson H. Smoger of Smoger & Associates in Oakland. Four other California attorneys have served as Presidents of The TLPJ Foundation: Thomas M. Dempsey of the Law Offices of Thomas M. Dempsey in Los Angeles; Joseph W. Cotchett of Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy in San Francisco; J. Gary Gwilliam of Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli & Brewer in Oakland; and Sal Liccardo of The Liccardo Law Firm in Saratoga.

Trial Lawyers for Public Justice is a prominent public interest law firm dedicated to using trial lawyers’ skills and resources to advance the public good. Founded in 1982, TLPJ utilizes a network of more than 3,500 of the nation’s outstanding trial lawyers to pursue precedent-setting and socially significant litigation. TLPJ has a wide-ranging litigation docket in the areas of consumer rights, worker safety, civil rights and liberties, toxic torts, environmental protection, and access to the courts. TLPJ is the principal project of The TLPJ Foundation, a not-for-profit membership organization headquartered in Washington, DC, with a West Coast office in Oakland, California.

Bruce Babbitt, former governor of Arizona and interior secretary in the Clinton administration, has joined the board of directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy www.lincolninst.edu.

“This is a convergence and a coming home,” said Babbitt, who is stepping down in October as chairman of the World Wildlife Fund. “I have worked with the Lincoln Institute for many years as governor of Arizona and during my time as secretary of the interior. I have always believed the Institute is the recognized leader in land policy, and I am honored to become a member of the board.”

“We are thrilled that someone with such wisdom and experience will help us guide this great organization,” said Kathryn J. Lincoln, chair of the board of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass. with an office in Phoenix, concerned with the use, taxation, and regulation of land.

With degrees in geology, geophysics and law, Babbitt was elected to statewide office as attorney general of Arizona on his first foray into elective politics at age 36. After fulfilling that role from 1975 to 1978, he then served as governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987. As governor, Babbitt brought environmental and resource management to the forefront in Arizona, bringing about the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980, which remains the most comprehensive water regulatory system in the nation. He was also responsible for the creation of the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and a major expansion of the state park system.

Appointed secretary of the interior by President Clinton in 1993, Babbitt served from 1993 to 2001, bringing about the forest plan in the Pacific Northwest, restoration of the Florida Everglades, passage of the California Desert Protection Act, and legislation for the National Wildlife Refuge system. As a certified fire fighter, Babbitt brought his front line experience to creating a new federal wild land fire policy that emphasizes the role of fire in maintenance and restoration of natural ecosystems. He pioneered the use of habitat conservation plans under the Endangered Species Act and worked with President Clinton to create twenty two new national monuments, including the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah. He is perhaps best remembered by American school children as the secretary who brought the wolves back to Yellowstone.

Babbitt is the author of Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America published by Island Press, in which he lays out a framework for national land use planning in the U.S. The departing chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, Babbitt is a research fellow at the Blue Moon Fund, working on infrastructure in South America, and was the founder of the National Landscape Conservation System Foundation.

Other members of the board of the Lincoln Institute include Thomas M. Becker, president of The Chautauqua Institution; Henry A. Coleman, professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University; Gary Cornia, dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University; William A. Fischel, professor of economics at Dartmouth College; Alberto Harth, president of Civitas in San Salvador, El Salvador; Gregory K. Ingram, president, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Bruce Lincoln of Phoenix, Arizona; David C. Lincoln, president of VIKA Corp. and chairman of the Lincoln Laser Company; John G. Lincoln III, senior engineer at CH2M-Hill in Boise, Idaho; Kenneth T.W. Pang, adjunct professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Andrea Taylor, director of community affairs, North America, Microsoft Corporation; Douglas P. Wheeler, partner at Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C.; and Carol Whiteside, president emeritus of the Great Valley Center in Modesto, California.

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a leading resource for key issues concerning the use, regulation, and taxation of land.

Question by John Q: Why aren’t democrats “on board” for tort reform in health care?
It’s a “no brainer” for cost cutting. Don’t democrats want to cut costs for health care or would they rather just cash their checks from trial lawyers?

Best answer:

Answer by allysum19Tort reform has been tried in some states. The only benefits went to the bottom lines of insurance companies.

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